@PricingProphets

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Adventures in #pricing by the founder of www.PricingProphets.com & author of "Overcoming Floccinaucinihilipilification" | Worldwide, from #melbourne
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Delta's AI pricing is not the only pricing strategy being used by US airlines, according to this piece from @Econmist - https://buff.ly/RwBmcz0

#pricing #airlines

When firms raise prices, “gouging” their customers, many governments complain. But in today’s China, the opposite is happening. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/06/30/xi-jinping-wages-war-on-price-wars
Xi Jinping wages war on price wars

Unfortunately for China’s leader, his own policies are often to blame for them

The Economist
ACCC sweep finds concerning Black Friday 'sales' advertising

The ACCC has conducted a sweep of sales advertising by Australian businesses online and in store and is concerned that a number of claims about the size and scope of discounts may be misleading consumers.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
It’s a pretty formidable task to find 350 – 500 words of universal #pricing advice that any #SME can embrace. But these three rules should fit the bill… https://pricingprophets.com/three-simple-pricing-rules-for-any-sme/?utm_content=bufferfe846&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Three Simple Pricing Rules for any SME - Pricing Prophets - Making Pricing Profitable

One of the biggest myths in pricing is that “its all about the dollars and cents”, the figures that go on the price tag we attach to our product or service. Pricing is so much more than that: most of the 80 or so public or in-house pricing workshops that I’ve facilitated over the years […]

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It wasn’t that long ago that the most we knew about our sense of smell is that it is remembered longer than the other senses, and that 75% of human emotions are based on what we smell. But that’s hardly a basis for #pricing…or is it? Read more here: https://pricingprophets.com/does-your-pricing-stink/?utm_content=buffer258e0&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Does Your Pricing Stink? - Pricing Prophets - Making Pricing Profitable

How to entice customers to buy Last week, I was in Shanghai delivering some in-house and public workshops on value-based pricing. As the name suggests, time in the workshop is devoted to identifying the economic value provided by a company’s products or services. One of these workshops was for a company that sells fragrances. Sounds […]

Pricing Prophets - Making Pricing Profitable
25 Years of the £2 Coin

15th June marked the 25th anniversary of the £2 coin entering into circulation in the UK. The history of the £2 coin goes back just over a decade more. There were commemorative £2 coins struck for the 1986 Commonwealth Games hosted in Edinburgh – the first sporting event to be commemorated on a coin in the UK.

Bond Vigilantes
Netflix sees spike in subscription after crackdown on password-sharing

Netflix sees spike in subscription after crackdown on password-sharing

WION
This story covers #shrinkflation of goods in Australia. What’s less reported is shrinkflation in services | #pricing #inflation| https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/17/shrinkflation-price-rises-product-smaller
Shrinkflation: don’t want to upset customers with price rises? Just make your product smaller

A growing list of companies are increasing profits and passing on costs by shrinking their products, meaning customers pay the same amount for less

The Guardian
Want to learn more about #pricing? Check out the timeless pricing articles in "Musings on Pricing, Vol.1", available here: https://pricingprophets.com/premium-content/?utm_content=buffer8705f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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The French have always loved their food. So it's hardly surprising that rising food prices (& other factors), contributed to the French Revolution of 1789 -1799. Decades later, a Frenchman started another, less well known revolution: a #pricing revolution https://pricingprophets.com/the-deer-have-now-got-guns-2/?utm_content=buffer776a4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
The Deer Have Now Got Guns - Pricing Prophets - Making Pricing Profitable

The latest Pricing revolution has started The French have always loved their food. So its hardly surprising that rising food prices, amongst other factors, contributed to the French Revolution of 1789 -1799. Several decades later, a Frenchman started another, less well known revolution: a pricing revolution. Louis Auguste Boileau was a retailing visionary, many years ahead of […]

Pricing Prophets - Making Pricing Profitable